As much as I'd like to move completely out of Java just because I like the idea of using VIM or lightweight editor with Python/Ruby to fit the ideology of a young hacker with 13" MBP, I've got to be honest with myself that the Java ecosystem provides the most complete and most mature tools (SCM, IDE, etc), libraries, and frameworks to do almost every single tasks out there.

Even with the price of verbosity. Tough proposition...